This
SeaWiFS view of the western Mediterranean shows dust from the
Sahara desert and smoke in the Balkans.

Provided
by the SeaWiFS Project of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and
ORBIMAGE.

The
mission of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is to expand
knowledge of the Earth and its environment, the Solar system and
the Universe through observations from space. The purpose of the
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project is to
provide quantitative data on global ocean bio-optical properties
to the Earth science community.

ORBIMAGE
is a leading global provider of geospatial imagery products and
services, with a constellation of digital remote sensing
satellites complemented by data from other optical, aerial and
radar sources.